Let’s turn the tide on plastic: Beauty spots across Britain are scarred with thousands of pieces of waste leading to calls for a plastic tax and a bottle deposit scheme

Washed up by the tide, ugly piles of discarded bottles scar otherwise magnificent beaches. Nearly 1,000 pieces of litter are discarded for every 100 metres of coastline in Britain, with single-use containers most at fault. A call for a plastic tax and a bottle deposit scheme is the inevitable consequence of such an alarming situation.